News, events, and announcements for the UD GIS community, March 2012
News
- Intergraph, maker of ERDAS IMAGINE is conducting their annual survey.
- The S-57 Add-On (free) is now available for ArcGIS. S-57 is a martime chart vector data standard. The Add-On provides International Hydrographic Organization standard symbology, and allows users to quickly display and analyze S-57 with other data.
Software Updates
- Service Pack 4 is available for ArcGIS 10 Desktop, Engine, Server from GIS@UD download page. That update and SP4 updates for ArcSDE and ArcIMS 10 are also available from Esri’s Patches and Service Packs site.
- FME Service Pack 1
Data Updates
- 2012 Ortho Imagery for ALL of Delaware has been flown! That includes New Castle County, thanks to stakeholders kicking in the needed funds at the 11th hour. A final product is scheduled for sometime in early 2013.
- Parcel data has been updated for Delaware counties in DataMIL MapLab
New and Updated Esri Virtual Campus Courses (contact gis-info@udel.edu for free access)
Other New Webinars
- 3/29/12 11a-12p: Google Fusion Tables and FME
- 3/21/12 12p-1p: GIS Solutions on Amazon Web Services Cloud
Events
- 3/14 Deadline for MAC URISA abstract submission
- 3/15 Deadline for UCGIS abstract submission
- 3/19-3/20/12 Towson U Union, Towson, MD: 25th Annual Towson University Geographic Information Sciences Conference (TUgis 2012),
- 4/10-4/12/12, FOSS4G 2012, Washington, DC
- 4/26/2012, Sheraton Conference Center, Dover, DE: Delaware GIS 2012 From the Ground Up
- 5/15-5/16, Geospatial Technology in Agriculture, Delaware Cooperative Extension, Delaware State University 1200 North DuPont Highway Dover, DE
- 5/30/12-6/1: UCGIS 2012 Symposium Doubletree Hotel, Washington, D.C. Abstract due 2/29/12
- 6/18-6/19/12, VISualize 2012, Washington, DC
- 10/22-10/24/12: MAC URISA 2012, Atlantic City, NJ
Other Opportunities
- Now is the time to vote on the Delaware Geographic Service Awared recipient. 5 groups have been selected for nomination, including UD’s Nicole Minni (under the Delaware GIS Day 2011 Committee) and Dr. Peter Rees. You can read each nominee’s biographical sketch and vote here.
- Jim Black (jim.black@consultant.com), chair of the Delaware Chapter of the Sierra Club, is looking to create a map that shows 3 layers; Delaware cancer clusters, transportation systems, and an overlay of DNREC’s Toxics Release Inventory (TRI). Please contact him if you have a student who would like to help as part of an independent study.
Area/Forwarded Job Postings (if no link, email me mearns@udel.edu, and I’ll forward the email announcements)
- Modeler – Catastrophe Risk – Jersey City, NJ
- Lecturer, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, UNC Charlotte, NC
- GIS Programmer York County, York, PA
As always, please let me know if you have any questions or ideas that you’d like to discuss